$20 advanced, $25 at the door, $5 student tickets
General Admission (Seated) - Doors open at 3:30PM
https://www.lydianquartet.com/
Since 1980, the Lydian String Quartet has been acclaimed by audiences and critics for embracing the full range of string quartet repertory with "a precision and involvement marking them as among the world's best quartets" (Chicago Sun-Times). Awarded top prizes in the Evian, Portsmouth, and Banff competitions and winning the 1984 Naumburg Award for Chamber Music, the Lydians have performed throughout the USA at venues such as Jordan Hall in Boston; the Kennedy Center and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.; and Alice Tully Hall, Miller Theater, and Weill Hall in New York City. Abroad, the Quartet has appeared in Armenia, Canada, England, France, Italy, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
The Lydians offer traditional, thematic, contemporary, multi-media, and cross-cultural programming. Longtime champions of new works with performances, recordings, and university residencies, their work has been recognized by multiple Chamber Music America/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming, grants from the Meet the Composer/Rockefeller Foundation/AT&T Jazz Program in partnership with the NEA, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. In 2012 their first LSQ Commission Prize competition resulted with winner Kurt Rohde writing his epic treatises for an unrecovered past, recorded by the Lydians in 2015. Other LSQ Commission Prizes have been awarded to Steven Snowden, Saad Haddad, Lembit Beecher, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, who incorporated the quartet into his new chamber opera Barbaverde en Mineralis in collaboration with soprano Leah Brzyski, guitarist Dieter Hennings, and La Coperacha Puppet Company of Guadalajara, Mexico where it was staged in the spring of 2025.
The Lydians' extensive discography includes works by Beethoven, Brahms, Ives, Ornstein, and Schubert as well as contemporary composers such as Yu-Hui Chang, Eric Chasalow, Lee Hyla, Steven Mackey, and Yehudi Wyner. Their recording of John Harbison's String Quartet No. 3 and The Rewaking was chosen by The New York Times and The Boston Globe as one of the best classical recordings of 2001. Of their 2012 recording of Beethoven's late quartets, Jeremy Eichler wrote, "These distinguished readings are full of subtlety, tonal refinement, and a sense of accumulated musical wisdom.”
